Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #238: May 7, 2007

    Content summary: Shel in Chicago for the Ragan Corporate Communicators Conference; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; social networks for communicators from Ragan and Melcrum; no more wasting time with PR agencies, says ResearchTalk podcast; LinkedIn changes invitation policy; companies’…

  • The real-world view of Web 2.0

    New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project has some fascinating statistics on how Americans use technology. According to A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users (PDF download), half of all American adults are only occasional users…

  • The Ragan and Melcrum competition

    Last week, Chicago-based Ragan Communications launched MyRagan.com, a free service aimed at communicators around the world that’s a mix of social network, knowledge and information resource. It’s captured a lot of imaginations and got off to a cracking start. When I…

  • Black Book: A stunning war movie

    Films about the Second World War war don’t do much for me. I can count on one hand such films that have made an impact, the most recent being Flags of Our Fathers which I saw on a plane journey…

  • Sky News launching newsroom in Second Life

    Satellite TV broadcaster Sky News will establish a news outpost in Second Life next month, becoming the first TV news channel to create a permanent presence in the virtual world. The 24-hour news channel is building a Second Life replica…